In the past days I had a chance to give an eye to these future feature of the .NET framework and I have to say I really love it. It allows you to write code that have to run asynchronously or in sequence (continuations) in a very simple and intuitive

This entry was posted on Thursday, 21 April, 2011 and is filed under .Net  Silverlight  WPF  WP7  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

The WPF binding system allows you to bind to Indexers and properties and it also have a nice feature that allows you to bind to the explicit implementation of interfaces’ members, allowing you to resolve possible ambiguities if the properties have th

This entry was posted on Tuesday, 06 July, 2010 and is filed under WPF  Silverlight  .Net  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

I was playing around with the DataForm control offered by the Silverlight 4 Toolkit and I realized it’s missing an IsEditing property I could have used to bind to other interface elements (and disable them while I am editing something in the DataForm

This entry was posted on Monday, 24 May, 2010 and is filed under Silverlight  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

Let’s move on to the next step and remove all the code on the view that is directly related to the commands the user can give through buttons. To do so we use a new feature of Silverlight 4: Commanding. Since the release of Silverlight 2 the runtime

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 28 April, 2010 and is filed under IoC  Silverlight  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

It’s time to go on with this series, at this point we know the basic principles of MVVM and we have a set of base classes and interfaces we can use. We need to put it in action and see how we can implement the View and the ViewModel and how we can ti

This entry was posted on Monday, 26 April, 2010 and is filed under IoC  Silverlight  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

Working on solutions based on IoC systems and for our recent DotNetMarche workshop, in which we shown how you can architect a solution based on these systems and some advantages you can have using AOP techniques, I wanted to update the actual Castle

This entry was posted on Monday, 19 April, 2010 and is filed under Silverlight  Castle Windsor  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

In the previous post I’ve presented a very fast introduction of what MVVM is and I’ve defined the two basic interfaces for the view and the viewmodel; I’m not going to implement a ‘pure’ version of the pattern itself because I consider a pattern just

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 14 April, 2010 and is filed under Silverlight  WPF  IoC  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

Speaking of my previous post about build and IoC-enabled Silverlight Navigation framework a couple of friends of mine asked me mode details about how I implemented the MVVM pattern for a line of business application. Model-View-ViewModel is a very s

This entry was posted on Tuesday, 13 April, 2010 and is filed under IoC  Silverlight  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

Silverlight 3 introduced to us a good navigation framework: you could combine Frames and UriMapper objects to change portion of your page (or the entire page) on the fly allowing you to navigate to different section of your application. There are ple

This entry was posted on Thursday, 08 April, 2010 and is filed under Silverlight  IoC  Castle Windsor  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

As your Silverlight projects grow complex you’ll soon start to feel the need to have a solid logging system. In my WPF and Windows Forms project I’m now used to have Castle Windsor + Log4Net as my logging system and I really miss it in my Silverlight

This entry was posted on Monday, 22 March, 2010 and is filed under Castle Windsor  Silverlight  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.